The medical realities of the coronavirus have forced corrections administrators, public health experts, advocates, and political leaders to recognize that many of the people in…
Stay-at-home orders issued as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the U.S. are “reigniting” long-standing concerns about charge stacking—the practice of piling on multiple charges for…
Photo via Flickr It wasn’t so long ago that, in another crisis, when Hurricane Katrina hit our southern coast, the justice system literally left youth behind.…
COVID-19 is exploding in New Orleans. As of April 1, 2,270 people in Orleans Parish have tested positive, and 115 have died. While Mayor LaToya Cantrell…
Kendel Ehrlich. Photo via Wikipedia Former Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich has been named to lead the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering…
I spent half my life in prison—24 years, eight months and 15 days—and nothing I experienced compares to the crisis I see behind bars today.…
Illustration by Kal Omari via Flickr The privacy debate surrounding the use of facial recognition has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak. While countries like…
Warning of the rapidly rising number of infections in New York City jails, the top doctor at Rikers Island called the coronavirus-hit jail complex a…
More data from counties around the U.S. can help authorities analyze the impact of COVID-19 on local justice systems, according to Measures for Justice. “We’re…
Eight years after Cory Lovelace’s 2006 Valentine’s Day death in downstate Illinois from undetermined causes, investigators charged her husband, Curtis, with her murder. Unable to…